If you don't get tested - the odds are you won't - the relief of recovery is quickly replaced with doubt, "was it really Covid-19?" And you must fearfully go on acting like it wasn't.
Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
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#32If you don't get tested - the odds are you won't - the relief of recovery is quickly replaced with doubt, "was it really Covid-19?" And you must fearfully go on acting like it wasn't.
Not if you're people I've talked to recently -- any cold or flu and people are like "yeah I had it any it wasn't too bad, I don't get all the fuss. I'm immune to it now!" Even though they never got tested
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a matter of caution, I always keep psychostimulants handy. Particularly: ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and amphetamine salts. Also keep some other beta receptor agonists, like Ventolin. You never know when it can save your life.
Are those medicines actually advisable for covid?
I'm failing to find a list of recommended OTC drugs for covid19. All I'm finding is a generic statement that OTC drugs may help with symptom management.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/ca...
Ventolin is an inhaler. It opens up the airways during asthma attacks or similar. Pseudoephedrine is a decongestant.
The article under discussion indicates the author was given an inhaler and cough medicine at the ER and states they helped marginally.
Amphetamine salts are apparently used to treat ADHD. Some people use them illegally to concentrate for mid terms and finals at college or similar. I'm not personally aware of any valid reason to think they are appropriate for covid19.
Epinephrine is used to treat potentially deadly allergic reactions. You might know it better as "an epi pen."
It is contraindicated for a long list of things, including several heart issues that are potentially similar to the heart distress covid19 is causing in some patients. I'm guessing epinephrine would be a really bad idea to use with Covid19 without a really compelling reason, especially without medical supervision.
https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-146863/epinephrine-hcl-pf...
Re: Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
#34So he claims that he got it despite practicing all the social distancing protocols, hand-washing, etc. Has anyone calculated what are the probabilities of infection in an area with an active infection cluster while practicing social-distancing and other hygiene measures?
Note that the protocol was followed for the "previous two weeks". The incubation period can easily be two weeks[1], so the infection could have happened earlier. That said, more than 98% of corona cases involve fever[2] so this might have been something else. [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba... [2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-sympto...
98% of hospitalized patients had fever. Not all infections as per the link you cite.
Re: Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
#35the word mask only comes up once in the entire writeup, when he went to the hospital. Did he wear a mask at all times when outside his house?
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#36I'm also in CO and had COVID-19 like symptoms about a month ago (fever and GI issues without any other major symptoms for a week progressing into a dry cough/heavy breathing -- completely unlike any other flu I've had). I never got tested due to lack of test kits here in CO at the time and because my symptoms stayed manageable I never saw a health care provider beyond a virtual meeting to get a rescue inhaler. At the…
Which would in fact be good news in a certain way, because either it's as deadly as reported and nowhere near as contagious as your last paragraph suggests, or its far more contagious and widespread but thus nowhere near as deadly as is being seen from case fatality rates derived from known cases. I'm not stating anything new with this really, but your case is likely one of many, many others in which a person felt my…
The problem with this interpretation is that whatever the combination of deadly/contagious the virus is, we already have direct evidence that when it spreads without any containment it causes unacceptably extreme amounts of sickness and death. So exactly where the virus ends up on the grid of mortality/contagiousness doesn't seem to be all that important because it is well beyond the frontier of being problematic.
Hopefully in the next few days/weeks we'll get very concrete data on exactly what percentage of people are/were asymptomatic cases, but my guess is it will not be some crazy high number because if so we'd have likely already figured that out by now.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are those medicines actually advisable for covid?
I'm failing to find a list of recommended OTC drugs for covid19. All I'm finding is a generic statement that OTC drugs may help with symptom management. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/ca... Ventolin is an inhaler. It opens up the airways during asthma attacks or similar. Pseudoephedrine is a decongestant. The article under discussion indicates the author was given an inhaler and cough medic…
I used my Ventolin inhaler like a starving person given water and bread about two months ago. From "as needed, about once a month" to "max dosage for two weeks". Didn't get tested, but I can say the inhaler helped, but I still had trouble breathing.
Re: Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
#38Things you can do if you have symptoms:
- Sleep, it help your body build it's defense against virus
- Zinc supplements, it slow down the virus propagation (you may also look into zinc rich food) The cloriquine is actualy helping zinc get into your cells and thus blocking the reproduction of the virus
- Force fever in a hot bath: fever tell your body to go into virus defence mode (covid-19 has mechanism that calm your immune response), exposure to cold afteward is also usefull
- vitamin D / Sun, help regulate your immune response
I also had similar sensations, they went away after three days of this regiment.
source: mostly medcram https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDCRAMvideos/videos
Re: Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19
#39the word mask only comes up once in the entire writeup, when he went to the hospital. Did he wear a mask at all times when outside his house?
Should he have? The only person he mentions coming to his house is his friend who also had Covid-19.
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#40I hate to say it, but I’m actually jealous of people who have gone through and recovered from COVID-19. You can enter normal life again, you don’t need to have the fear, the rest of us are simply waiting because the chances of us getting it at some point is very high. I actually wonder if some controlled exposure might be a good thing, I can get it and (statistically) recover from it at a place away from my family, a…
It isn't clear yet that someone who gets COVID-19 can't get it again. In this case, fear comes from not knowing much about the virus yet: https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/if-i-get-coron... > Not every virus functions the same way, though, and extensive research into whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 generates enough antibodies to impart a durable immune response is unclear. But there’s pl…